Recipe: Mint Watermelon Salad

What I love most about summer is the weekend BBQs and pool parties. Whenever I’m invited, I tend to opt for bringing alcohol because you can never have enough rose and cold beer! Occasionally I’ll go all out to impress a few girlfriends, and prepare a side dish. Yes, that’s right, I occasionally use my kitchen.

Last weekend I experimented with this mint watermelon salad. It was so easy and fun to prepare, and everyone loved it!

Cut watermelon pulp from the rind, leaving a thin pink layer on the rind.
If you want to use the rinds as a bowl for the salad, put aside.
Tip: Don’t worry about how much pulp is left on the rind, you can easily scoop the rest of the pulp out with a spoon.

Dice tomatoes, watermelon, and cucumbers, and combine in a bowl.

Cut the lemons in half and squeeze into the bowl. Fresh lemon is enough of a dressing for me, but if you want to add another flavor, balsamic dressing or balsamic reduction works well.